Mumbai: Ravindra Chavan, who was appointed working president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra in January, is all set to be elected as the party's next state president. The official announcement of his election will be made by union minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju at a grand event at Worli on Tuesday. Chavan will take over from the outgoing president and revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, who was appointed in Augus
Mumbai: The Mahayuti government on Monday tabled two ordinances for the formation of the Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Kumbh Mela Authority and the Gadchiroli District Mining Authority in the state assembly. The ordinances, which grant sweeping powers to the two authorities, will be converted into separate legislations once they are approved by the legislative assembly and the legislative council. A total of six ordinances were tabled in the assembly on
MUMBAI: Fourteen weeks after the state government presented a ₹7-lakh-crore budget for FY 2025-26, it has tabled supplementary demands of ₹57,510 crore -- a sum which is about 8.21% of the budget and the second-highest supplementary demand in the history of the state. Terming this a sign of the government's fiscal indiscipline, the opposition and experts said that with further supplementary demands likely to be tabled in December and March, it co
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has written to the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) seeking interrogation of SAD leader and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia in drug-related cases, an official said on Monday. The letter, content of which was shared by the official, reads: "It has been learnt that Bikram Singh Majithia has been arrested on June 25 by the vigilance bureau for his role of facilitation in massive laundering linked with drug money
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on June 25 arrested Majithia in a disproportionate assets case allegedly involving laundering of ₹540 crore of "drug money". Majithia, who is the brother-in-law of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, is learnt to have been taken to Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh for verification of property allegedly linked to his family. Though Majithia does not own any property in Himachal, his wife Ganieve Kaur Majithia, an Akal
Mumbai: There was a time, in the transitional men's tennis phase of the Big Three dominance dwindling and two young stars rising yet not sparkling, when Daniil Medvedev held fort for a consistent face deep in Grand Slams. Between 2021 and 2024, the Russian made five Slam finals and became the 2021 US Open champion. This year, he's had one win and back-to-back first-round exits in Slams. Though he says he's "not panicking" yet, the ever-entertain
NEW DELHI: Ayush Shetty has been able to achieve what no other Indian shuttler has managed so far -- win a BWF World Tour title in 2025. PV Sindhu has been far from winning one. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty only managed to reach the semis. Former world No.1 Kidambi Srikanth came the closest when he made the Malaysia Masters final in May. The deadlock ended when the 20-year-old Shetty stood on the top step of the podium in Council Bl
Mumbai: MS Dhoni got a step closer to turning the 'Captain Cool' moniker he enjoyed when he was India skipper into a trademark. His application under the trademark law for exclusive rights over the epithet was "accepted and advertised". Accordingly, the 'Captain Cool' tag proposed to be used by Dhoni for 'sports training, providing sports training facilities, sports coaching services' was added to the Trademark Journal of the Controller General
MUMBAI: As India's second Test against England starts at Edgbaston on Wednesday, fixing the gaps from the opening game defeat at Headingley, where half of the Subhman Gill-led side did extremely well and the other half flopped, will be important. In batting, Karun Nair's comeback and Sai Sudharsan's debut proved forgettable affairs. In bowling, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Kirshna and Shardul Thakur were found wanting in playing the support role to J
Kolkata/Berhampore: Bengal's Murshidabad district police on Monday served a summon notice to 2025 Padma Shri awardee Swami Pradiptananda, a Bharat Sevashram Sangha monk popularly known as Kartik Maharaj, asking him to appear at the Lalbagh police station by 10 am on Tuesday for questioning in the rape case filed against him last week on the basis of a complaint lodged by a local woman. "Swami Pradiptananda is not here. I will go through the pape
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Industrial production activity in India moderated month-on-month with the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing 1.2 per cent in May, against 2.7 per cent recorded in April, according to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation data. In May, the growth rates of the three sectors, Mining, Manufacturing and Electricity the were (-) 0.1 per cent, 2.6 per cent, and (-) 5.8 per cent, respectively
Kolkata: Several pieces of evidence corroborate the statements made by the 24-year-old law student who was allegedly gang-raped in the South Calcutta Law College on June 25, officials aware of the developments said. These include the results of the survivor's medical tests, CCTV footage, video clippings found in the accused's mobile phone and other circumstantial evidence. Meanwhile, three separate petitions were moved in the Calcutta high court
Karnataka 2nd PUC Exam 3 Result News 2025 Live: The Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) will declare the results of the Karnataka 2nd PUC Examination 3 results on the official webiste. When declared, students who appeared in the Karnataka 2nd PUC exam 3 will be able to check their results on the official website at karresults.nic.in....Read More Students will be need to use their register number and date of birth to check t
New Delhi: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is probing from all angles, including sabotage, in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that killed 274 people on board and on the ground last month, Minister of State (MoS) For Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol said. Mohol said the black box of the Air India flight AI 171 that has been recovered is in AAIB's custody and will not be outside the country for a thorough assessment. The MoS
Mumbai: The doctors suspect a sudden drop in blood pressure as the cause of Shefali Jariwala's death. Police have ruled out any foul play in the actor's death. We are awaiting the post-mortem report, said a police officer. According to the police, the 42-year-old actor collapsed at her residence on Friday night. Her husband, television actor Parag Tyagi, rushed her to Bellevue Multispeciality Hospital in Andheri, where doctors declared her dead
Mumbai: Increasing property prices and geopolitical tensions across the world have hit housing sales in seven metropolitan cities in India, with sales dropping by 20% in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the second quarter of 2024. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) was hit the hardest, with housing sales dropping by 25%, from 41,540 units in the second quarter of 2024 to 31,275 units in the second quarter of 2025, according to a report by
Haridwar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj on Sunday demanded that hotel, dhaba and eatery owners on the Kanwar Yatra routes should display their names and identities on boards outside their business establishments. The owners, who hide their identities under fake names, on the Kanwar Yatra routes should not be spared, he told reporters here. "Tampering with faith of the Hindu devotees during the Kanwar Yatra will not be tolerated
Chandigarh: Apart from stand-in skipper Smriti Mandhana, another India cricketer created a flutter with her performance against England in the first T20I at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on Saturday. Wearing a blue headband over her pixie haircut, left-arm spinner Shree Charani hogged the spotlight on T20I debut by claiming four wickets for 12 runs to help India hand England their heaviest defeat, by a comprehensive 97 runs. The 20-year-old, who had
NEW DELHI: India lost some fighter jets on the opening day of the recent military confrontation with Pakistan due to initial restrictions imposed by the government on striking Pakistani military establishments and the orders were to hit only terror infrastructure in that country, India's defence attache to Indonesia said at a seminar in Jakarta. His hitherto unreported comments at the June 10 event were in response to claims made by an Indonesia
New Delhi: The Centre has asked the states and union territories to make any proposed changes in the boundaries of administrative jurisdictions before December 31, 2025, when they will freeze for the Census-2027 exercise and the first phase of the decadal population count will begin on April 1 next year, according to a communication sent by the registrar general and census commissioner of India, Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, on June 27. The freezing
PATNA: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday claimed that the ruling NDA in Bihar was "on its way out", and the new government in the state led by the Mahagathbandhan will "consign to dustbin" the Waqf Act brought by the Narendra Modi dispensation at the Centre. The young leader addressed a 'Save Waqf, Save Constitution' rally, held at the historical Gandhi Maidan here, where leaders from various political parties had turned up, wearing black band
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat forest department started an inquiry on Saturday after a video of a man repeatedly beating a female elephant in Ahmedabad was widely shared on social media platforms, including X. The 43-second footage of the person, reportedly a mahout (handler), striking the elephant around 19 times with a stick has sparked widespread outrage among citizens, including animal welfare advocates. The forest department has begun an inquiry
MUMBAI: In an important development, a special PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court on June 25 allowed restoration of assets ₹952 crore attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case against Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS), its group companies, and associated entities. The property - Surat-based plant of Vadraj Cement Limited - would be restored to Nuvoco Vistas Corporation Ltd, which ha
MUMBAI: "Mumbai has become free of loudspeakers on religious structures," police commissioner Deven Bharti said on Saturday. While not naming any community, the police claimed that meetings and negotiations helped them convince community and political leaders, and the trustees of religious bodies, to remove loudspeakers from more than 1,500 structures, making the city "loudspeaker-free". They claimed the action was not aimed at any particular c
DHARMAPURI: For the third time in the past two months, a wild leopard wandered into a private farmland near Valaithottam village near Palacode and hunted chicken raised by a local farmer. Locals are increasingly distressed and urged the forest department to take steps to relocate the leopard. Over the past few months, there have been several reports of leopard sightings in forest areas near Palacode, particularly in Valaithottam village, near th
MUMBAI: Saquib Abdul Hamid Nachan, terror suspect from Padgha on the outskirts of Mumbai, died in a Delhi hospital on Saturday. Nachan was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for his alleged links to the banned Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in December 2023, along with 15 other alleged ISIS members. They were picked up by the federal investigating agency during searches in Padgha, a village in Thane district, as part of a
MUMBAI: After a diktat by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, the Development Plan (DP) department of the BMC on Saturday issued a notice to modify the DP 2034 to make a provision for a coastal road from Versova to Dahisar. The stretches from Versova to Dahisar and Dahisar to Bhayandar are being carried out by the BMC. On Friday, when Fadnavis took a review of the coastal road, officers implementing the project said that land acquisition would be
MUMBAI: A 12-year-old boy from Ghartan Pada in Dahisar accidentally fired a round from an Italian pistol he found in a garbage dump on Friday evening. The police said the boy picked up the loaded pistol and was playing with it thinking it was a toy. He realised that it was a real pistol when he pulled the trigger and a bullet was fired. Fortunately no one was injured in the incident. According to the Dahisar police, a passerby informed constable
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 29 (ANI): Several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and its workers were detained by the police as they were protesting at Lalbazar against the alleged gangrape incident at South Calcutta Law College. Claiming links between the accused in the gangrape of a law student in Kolkata and top TMC leaders, the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
New Delhi The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued an emergency alert to Android and iOS mobile phone users across India on Saturday. The pop-up alert, received by smartphone users first in English around 1pm, followed by a Hindi version around 1:30pm, contained a test message informing the users about the government's initiative. "This is a TEST Cell Broadcast message sent by Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Pleas